Top 100 Behar Quotes
#1. If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
Adam Carolla
#2. McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#3. I mean, I'd like to see (Mitt Romney's) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool - the Mormon fire patrol.
Joy Behar
#4. I wanted to be a writer as a teen ... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
Yves Behar
#5. You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.
Yves Behar
#6. Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ... I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.
Joy Behar
#7. Think like a person of action; act like a person of thought.
Howard Behar
#8. Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
Yves Behar
#9. The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
Yves Behar
#10. You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.
Joy Behar
#11. I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday 'Times.' You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review ... even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships.
Joy Behar
#12. Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
Yves Behar
#13. What got me really excited about Tylko is the fact that it bridges the gap between tradition and technology. It expands the designer's ability to create a language, to create ideas, to create a set of proportions, a set of details, and to apply those across a really wide range of applications.
Yves Behar
#14. A better thing to grow up with is to be funny I think, and if I had, if I had my choice I would still pick that.
Joy Behar
#15. I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.
Joy Behar
#16. I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Yves Behar
#17. I've been through many years of psychotherapy, psycho-drama, I've taken risks in my life. I've had trials and tribulations just like every body else. You have to really think about who you are. You can't just go through life and sail threw.
Joy Behar
#18. You really have to know who you are. It takes, uh it's not that easy.
Joy Behar
#19. I am comfortable with myself, and this is how I am. I am not really interested in having an acrimonious fight with somebody.
Joy Behar
#20. I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
Yves Behar
#21. Elisabeth Hasselbeck could run for vice president.
Joy Behar
#22. Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.
Joy Behar
#23. When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
Yves Behar
#24. My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
Yves Behar
#25. It's the land of my ancestors. I need to set my feet on that soil and see how I feel. I have missed my mother's warm tortillas and many more things than I can name.
Ruth Behar
#26. Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
Yves Behar
#27. I feel like when being raised in New York City I have a particular perspective on things like Gay issues maybe, because I'm in the middle of Manhattan.
Joy Behar
#28. The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.
Yves Behar
#29. Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
Yves Behar
#30. The person who sweeps the floor should choose the broom.
Howard Behar
#31. I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.
Joy Behar
#32. Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.
Joy Behar
#33. The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.
Joy Behar
#34. I think it's interesting to me to talk to people who don't agree with me all the time.
Joy Behar
#35. The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
Yves Behar
#36. Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish.
Joy Behar
#37. Comedians usually are rooting for the underdog. I mean to take a shot at an underdog I think is really stupid and low and not funny.
Joy Behar
#38. Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules.
Howard Behar
#39. As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.
Joy Behar
#40. Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.
Joy Behar
#41. Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
Yves Behar
#42. An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
Yves Behar
#43. Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay ... calm.
Yves Behar
#44. It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.
Joy Behar
#45. I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
Yves Behar
#46. Never eat at a Chinese restaurant named Mama Teresa's Trattoria.
Joy Behar
#47. I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?
Joy Behar
#48. What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
Yves Behar
#49. I want a man in my life, not in my house.
Joy Behar
#50. When people heckle me, I have the microphone. And the press has the microphone.
Joy Behar
#51. It's not interesting enough if you don't know who you are, what you want. You need to make educated decisions about your moves and talk to people who care about you. And you need to have people who will have your back.
Joy Behar
#52. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.
Joy Behar
#53. Having one foot in design and the other in sustainable and social projects, I hear this question quite often: 'Why does the world need another chair?' My answer is that the world needs another chair/bicycle/car or any new product for that matter, like the world needs another book.
Yves Behar
#54. Kodak has always represented innovation that is approachable while delivering the craft of filmmaking.
Yves Behar
#55. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.
Ruth Behar
#56. For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
Yves Behar
#57. Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
Yves Behar
#58. I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.
Yves Behar
#59. Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
Yves Behar
#60. If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it.
Joy Behar
#61. I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.
Joy Behar
#62. The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
Yves Behar
#63. He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist.
Joy Behar
#64. If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?
Howard Behar
#65. Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
Yves Behar
#66. I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.
Joy Behar
#67. Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
Yves Behar
#68. When we know why we're here as individuals and leaders, when our people know why they're here, a sense of purpose carries us forward, and we can do what needs to be done. People want to work on big ideas that matter to them and make a difference. When they do, they find gold.
Howard Behar
#69. I read the 'New York Times', I read 'The Nation', I read 'Newsweek', I read 'Time Magazine', I read 'Politico', I read 'Mediaite'. This is what I do! I read every day, I have interests, I'm like everybody out there who's watching, who's out there watching, you know?
Joy Behar
#71. Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?
Joy Behar
#72. Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar
#73. I interviewed Ann Coulter when I was sitting in for Larry King a couple of times, and we have a rapport. I like to talk to her.
Joy Behar
#74. The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.
Ruth Behar
#75. Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.'
Joy Behar
#76. I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.
Joy Behar
#77. Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
Yves Behar
#78. I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
Yves Behar
#79. Part of my life is spent designing in urban centers, and part of my life has been spent in factories. But the other part of my life is spent in nature.
Yves Behar
#80. I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
Joy Behar
#81. I don't want to do just a liberal show.
Joy Behar
#82. I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
Joy Behar
#83. Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.
Yves Behar
#84. Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history.
Ruth Behar
#85. Madeleine Albright, when you see her, she's not a beautiful woman and she's getting older. But you're saying that woman has gravitas. She knows what she's talking about.
Joy Behar
#86. I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.
Yves Behar
#87. Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.
Howard Behar
#88. Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.
Howard Behar
#89. I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
Yves Behar
#90. I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar
#91. You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!
Joy Behar
#92. I think looks do matter on television.
Joy Behar
#93. Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.
Yves Behar
#94. I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.
Joy Behar
#95. I love a Dustbuster. You go around, pick up little crumbs, and everything is nice again.
Joy Behar
#96. The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
Yves Behar
#97. Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.
Yves Behar
#98. If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
Yves Behar
#99. It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
Yves Behar
#100. When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.
Yves Behar
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